04-14: What It's Like to Be a Bird with David Sibley

The American Birding Podcast

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4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

David Sibley hardly needs an introduction to the ABA’s audience. He is the author and illustrator of what is the most popular field guide in North America, and the one simply known by his name - The Sibley Guide, now in its second edition. David has a new book out earlier this year, What It’s Like to Be a Bird: What Birds are doing and Why – from Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing. It is a look at the fascinating behaviors and lives of our familiar birds, and, of course, a vehicle for David’s amazing artwork. He joins host Nate Swick to talk about his book, his art, and the benefits of birding alone.

Also, Nate talks about the racist attack on Christian Cooper, the incredible response that is Black Birders Week, and why the mostly White birding community needs to be paying attention.

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0:09.1	amazing deal exclusive to ABA members. ABA members can now get a 15% discount to any new
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0:19.8	years. Birds of the World is a is applicable for three years.
0:25.4	Birds of the World is a powerful resource that brings deep scholarly content from four celebrated works of Ornithology into a single platform where birders can answer all their life history
0:29.8	questions for every species of bird they could want.
0:32.4	It is extraordinary.
0:33.4	You can get more information at birdsof the world.org.
0:42.0	Music You can get more information at birds of the world.org. Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association.
0:46.0	I'm Nate Swick.
0:47.6	This is another one of those weeks where it feels like only one thing in the world is going on,
0:53.2	which isn't true, obviously, but it's hard not to feel that way.
0:57.1	And while I am typically okay with letting sort of larger societal issues fade into the background
1:03.0	while we take a half hour or so here to talk about birds, there are a couple birding elements
1:09.5	in this particular incident that make it impossible to do so.
1:14.8	Or at least I feel like it would be irresponsible of me not to comment on it given this platform that I have.
1:22.0	Of course, I am speaking of Christian Cooper, and sort of the larger issue of the black experience in America.
1:28.5	And I'm speaking primarily to white birders here.
1:32.2	I know we have a few black birders who listen and subscribe.
1:35.4	Hello, thank you.
1:36.7	But if the listenership of this podcast is reflective of the burning community at large,
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